The Human Stain
Oct 29, 2003 | IMDB 6
106 min Watch NowDrama, Romance
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
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The Color Purple
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IMDB 3.7 | Sep , 2006
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IMDB 7 | Nov , 2002
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IMDB 6.8 | Nov , 2007
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